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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department allocates the recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to the HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions and the internal disbursement of funding is then a matter for the individual institution. A Financial Review of the Institutes of Technology sector was published in October...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Budget 2017 sets out the resources available for schools for the 2017/18 school year. This Budget represents the start of a major reinvestment in education, and the first phase of implementation of the Action Plan for Education, aimed at becoming the best education system in Europe within a decade. The budget provides for over 2,400 additional teaching posts for our primary and post...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 443 and 445 together. In 2017, €98.7m has been allocated for apprenticeship training which represents a 40% increase on the 2016 spend of €69.6m. This funding is being made available from exchequer and national training fund resources. Future years' allocations will be determined through the normal budgetary process which takes account...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff Appeals Mechanism (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The criteria used for the allocation of teaching posts is published annually on the Department website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing schedule also includes an appeals mechanism for schools to submit an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department operates a number of home tuition grant schemes, including a scheme for children, other than those with special education needs, who do not have a school place, are without the offer of a school place and for whom a school place is being actively sought. This scheme is available to children who are between the age of 6 and 16 years. A child who is over 16 but has not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department of Education and Skills and the HEA have been working closely together to strengthen governance arrangements in the higher education sector in recent years. During 2015, the HEA reviewed its approach to the oversight and governance of higher education institutions and built on existing governance and accountability infrastructure with improved and more transparent mechanisms....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department met with the school referred to in the context of an application received for a replacement school.  The school were advised that, due to the need to prioritise available funding towards the provision of essential classroom accommodation to meet demographic demand, it would not be possible to progress a major project for the school at this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The project referred to by the Deputy was authorised to proceed to tender in October 2016. However, as the pre-qualification of contractors had first been conducted by the design team in April 2015 the design team, concerned about the possibility of legal challenges, asked the Office of Government Procurement for advice on this matter. The advice was that it would be prudent to run the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: As the Deputy is aware the building project for the school in question is included on my Department's capital programme. Officials in my Department have been liaising with officials in the relevant Local Authority regarding the potential development of an educationally zoned site to accommodate the school.  There are currently infrastructural issues...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Negotiations (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: On 2nd May, the Government published a comprehensive document on Ireland and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.This document sets out the approach of the Government to the forthcoming negotiations, following the successful campaign to have key Irish issues recognised in the EU negotiation position. Following...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In the context of the new Framework for Junior Cycle 2015 and as set out in my Department's Action Plan for Education 2016-2019, two new subject specifications for Junior Cycle Irish (Language 1 (L1) and Language 2 (L2)) are to be implemented for first-year students in post-primary schools from September 2017. This is the first time, in the history of post-primary education in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The project to which the Deputy refers is included in my Department's 6 Year Construction Programme 2016-21. The school and its design team submitted their Stage 2(b) report for this major building project to my Department on 24th April and the submission is currently under review. Following receipt of that submission my Department has authorised the Board of Management...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I can confirm that on 30 May my Department, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, conveyed sanction to University College Cork to implement the Labour Court recommendation with effect from the 12 September 2016.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pensions Data (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: I will arrange for the information requested by the Deputy in relation to teachers and non teaching staff paid on payrolls operated by my Department to be forwarded directly to her.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In April 2016, the school to which the Deputy refers applied for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme for a range of Access for All works for its building.  This included the provision of a lift. My Department provided funding to the school for a variety of measures excluding the lift because the school already has one. My Department notes that in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department has engaged consultants to procure the works required for the school in question and has emphasised the urgency in getting the works done as soon as possible. My officials are liaising with the school on the matter to keep them up to date on progress.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Fee Exemptions (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. In view of this I have forwarded your query to the State Examinations Commission for direct reply to you.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ireland Scholarship Programme (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: Students who sit the Leaving Certificate Examination for the first time in 2017 and who obtain at least Grade O6 or a higher grade in at least five subjects from the approved list of subjects, (as set out in the Rules and Programme for Post Primary Schools) will automatically be included as candidates for the award of the All Ireland Scholarships.  In order to be eligible for the All...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: My Department’s six-year Capital Programme priorities building projects to meet demographic demand and this includes schools in County Kildare. The Capital Programme also provides for devolved funding for additional classrooms for schools where an immediate enrolment need has been identified or where an additional teacher has been appointed. As the Deputy is aware, there are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (20 Jun 2017)

Richard Bruton: In April 2016, the school to which the Deputy refers applied for funding under my Department's Emergency Works Grant Scheme for a range of Access for All works for its building.  This included the provision of a lift. My Department provided funding to the school for a variety of measures excluding the lift because the school already has one.    My Department...